Bottle.



PATENTED MAY 19, 1908.

F. J'. COLMUS.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.14,1908.

UNITE@ STATES PATENT @Fm/'E- FRANK J. COLMUS, OF BALTIMORE, i\IARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF .ONE-THIRD TO HENRY HASCHENBURGER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

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To all'whom fitmayroncem:

Be it known that I, FRANK d. CoLMUs, a

` citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, State'of iWIaryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to means for preventing the further use of a bottle or analogous receptacle after the same has once been opened without detection, thereby throwing about 'a particular brand of goods a measure of protection which is beneficial to the proprietor and the consumer.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the detail-s of/ construction of the means for effecting the result, reference is to be had to the following description and to the drawings hereto attached in which similar letters and numbers are used to designate like parts in the several views shown therein. l

With the foregoing object'in View, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of `par.ts,whicli will be hereinafter described and pointed out in' the claims.

` fore the bottle is sealed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l-is a side elevation of the invention; F ig. 2 is a section through the bottle neck after having been sealed, and Fig. 3 is a similar view be# lThe body portion A of the bottle, ypackage or receptacle for receiving the goods maybe of'any design and size, and is provided with the upper neck 1,4l'iaving thereinthe opening 2, and lower neck 3 4 is the stopper; 5 is an external circumferential vgroove formed in the wall of the bottle neck, and by, reason oi ,the formation of the groove, the wall is conl siderably reducedin thickness atthis point.

Thefgroov'e 5 extends entirely laround the neck of the bottle land constitutes a breakline between the parts 1 and 3. .By reason.

of the neck being'considerably reduced in thiclkness by the groove 5,'the neck may be -easi dinary lateral pressure.. I have, however,

- provided a new and morenovel means of ef` eetively severing vthe neck part 1' from the 1 paiitx, Whicliwill-be hereinafter describedr- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led January 14, 1908. Serial No. 410,717,

and readil-ybroken aty'this pointofA `biea -line,by striking the part 1 a smartA blow, or subjecting-the said part to extraor-4 Patented May 19, 1908.

may be made of plaster of paris, mortar,

rosin, or any vself setting material or composition of matter, which will preclude the removal ofthe stopper 4 after the said cement material has become set and hardened.

In order that the cement material may be held within the bottle neck and rendered practically noni'emoval,`l have preferably ponstructed the part 1 of the neck in bulbous orm.

that will securely retain the cemeiiting matee rial will answer every requirement.

My device ls operated as follows: After the bottle or receptacle has been filled the stopper 4 is placed in position in the neck part 3, and enough cement 8 is iilled into the neck part 1 to fill it flush with the opening 2 therein provided. The paraflined cord 6 is then secured around the neck in the external circumferential groove 5, the free ends of the cord being secured in the seal 7, the seal 7 -be- .ing made of inflammable material, such as pa er and the like, and the cord 6 rendered in animable by reason of its being paraffined';

by igniting the seal the flame is extended to the cord which will burn in the groove 5, the

heat causedby the burning 'cordgwill cause the glass tosu-ddenly expand and\by reason This forni, however, is not essential' to the invention as any other form or shape of this sudden expansion, and by reason of i the thickness of t e walls of the neck being greatly reduced by the formation of the circumferential groove 5 therein, theneck will readily break, and beeome'severed at this point.

By this construction I have provided a new and novel means of renderin the original packa e unfit for further use without the fact of its able. f y y Having fully described my invention, what aving once been used' being notice- .other suitable materiel, a perefned cord y l claim as new' and desire to` secure by lieti ters Patent, isz.

The combination with e bottle or other vessel, the upper portion of the neck ofwhich is enlarged and of a bulbous shape formingan oblong-ovate shaped cavity between which and the lower portion of the neck is formed an external circumferentil groove extending entirely around the bottleneck thereby! greatly reducing the thickness of the Walls of the'said bottle neck, and forming a breek? line between the upper and lower neck portions, of 4e, stopper secured in the lower neck lportion, the said oblong-ovate shped cavity above the cork being filled with cement' or" Within t .the sai in presence of twowitnesses.

extendinamund. the said neck and secured e said external circumferential groove, and a; ape'r seal having the free ends of the said lcor secured therein, the said seal' adapted to be ignited and thereby extend the flame to the said cord, thereby causing the said ulpdr-ier neck part to become severed from lower neck part, substantially as described. I

In testimony whereof I ax my signature FRANK J.- coLMUs. Vitnes'ses: l E. WALTON BREWINTON, MARY MAGRAW. 

